In Defense of McCain - A Crazy Theory.

McCain was always going to lose this election. He never really had much of a chance. The macro trends are heavily against him, the winds of change blowing too hard.

He could've run an honorable and decent campaign. He didn't have to appease the base with a reckless VP choice. He could've lost with honor. The country would've admired him for that.

But what lesson would the GOP take from that? They would conclude you can't win without fighting dirty, without playing to the base. They would redouble their efforts at being the party of hate.

Maybe, just maybe, and i know this is a crazy theory, John McCain figured that if he was going to go down, he would try to take Karl Rove, Fox News, and what they represent with him?

Now We Know Why McCain Thought He Could Win Pennsylvania?

TPM has the details of McCain pushing the hoax. Was this their Pennsylvania strategy? Did they instigate it? What will they do now?

Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree:

Everyone's talking about the hypocrisy. I think there's another angle.

We're in the midst of possibly the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Money is tight. This is serious.

Yet the RNC sees fit to spend $150,000 of their donors' hard earned money at places like Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue on clothes for the VP candidate?

How can these clowns possibly be trusted to manage our financial crisis, to handle our money responsibly? What better example of how the Republicans don't get it, of how they're the problem, not the solution?